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Federalist 25: Powers necessary to common defense further considered
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
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Federalist 24: Powers necessary to common defense further considered
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
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Federalist 23: Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to the Preservation of the Union
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.
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Federalist 22: Other defects of the present confederation, continued…
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
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Federalist 21: Other defects of the present confederation
To form a safe and satisfactory judgment of the proper remedy, it is absolutely necessary that we should be well acquainted with the extent and malignity of the disease.
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Federalist 20: Insufficiency of Present Confederation to Preserve Union cont..
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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Federalist 19: Insufficiency of Present Confederation to Preserve Union cont..
In the eleventh century the emperors enjoyed full sovereignty: in the fifteenth they had little more than the symbols and decorations of power.
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Federalist 18: Insufficiency of Present Confederation to Preserve Union cont..
As a weak government, when not at war, is ever agitated by internal dissentions, so these never fail to bring on fresh calamities from abroad.
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Federalist 16: Insufficiency of Present Confederation to Preserve Union cont..
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.
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Federalist 15: Insufficiency of Present Confederation to Preserve Union
Each State, yielding to the persuasive voice of immediate interest or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins.
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NC’s bumpy road to joining the United States of America
"Because NC held out as long as it did, James Madison was forced to usher a bill of rights... NC required a bill of rights as a condition of ratification."
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NC needs term limits for legislative leaders
Unlike traditional term limits, leadership term limits would not restrict voters' choices on their representatives, only prevent the stagnation of power.
